Kanawha County Textbook War

What happens?

So what she does is she, she kind of goes to war against these new textbooks, and it actually gets called the Kanawha County Textbook War, and there's even, like, a folk song that's a tribute to her, uh, you know, and all sorts of other things like that.

So she stalls the board approving these books long enough that she can give a series of talks that start riling up this kind of, um, network of Christian churches and organizations, which the liberal establishment had basically completely ignored as it developed over the last 50 years.

And when you say she went to war, you really mean it.

The uptick in casual sex and STDs in that era created a real need for accurate education.

It reminds me of the questions we asked during the Kanawha County Textbook War episode, where parents were upset about kids reading materials about race, rape, and moral relativism.

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